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Makulinski Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$74k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
41%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$14,900
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Makulinski Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$73k50%
FY202417$48k41%
FY202317$73k59%
FY202215$74k60%
FY202117$75k53%
FY202010$56k30%
FY201915$53k67%
FY201814$60k71%
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$100kHuman Services$75kInternational$73kPhilanthropy$44kReligion$43kEnvironment$43kArts & Culture$39kAnimals$32kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
AR
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lucas County Pit Crew$32,10057%
League of Michigan Bicyclists Inc$21,32533%
Toledo Helps Ukraine$15,0002n/a
Perrysburg Schools Foundation$15,00031%
Sierra Club$14,13640%
North Gwinnett Cooperative Inc$12,95530%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$12,05030%
Toledo Repertoire Company$10,60032%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,50030%
Saline Area Social Service Inc$10,00011%
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All grantees of Makulinski Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lucas County Pit Crew$32,10057%
League of Michigan Bicyclists Inc$21,32533%
Toledo Helps Ukraine$15,0002n/a
Perrysburg Schools Foundation$15,00031%
Sierra Club$14,13640%
North Gwinnett Cooperative Inc$12,95530%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$12,05030%
Toledo Repertoire Company$10,60032%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,50030%
Saline Area Social Service Inc$10,00011%
Central Catholic High School$10,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$8,00010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$7,00020%
Catholic Relief Services$5,0001n/a
Greenpeace Inc$5,00010%
Oxfam-America Inc$5,00010%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$5,00010%
Rails to Trails Conservancy$4,50030%
Feeding America$4,50010%
Rotary Club of Toledo$3,98521%
Brighter Christmas Fund Inc$3,51013%
North Greenville Crisis Ministry I$3,25113%
Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc$2,71720%
The Toledo Museum of Art$2,50010%
Palmetto Cycling Coalition$2,4501n/a
Camp Amplify Inc$1,92921%
Public Broadcasting Service$1,75010%
Black Sheep Farm$1,6001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,31210%
Vagabond School of the Drama Inc$1,30010%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$1,1001n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,06010%
Pelotonia$1,0251n/a
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Perrysburg Saint John Xxii Parish$1,0001n/a
The Warehouse Theatre$1,00010%
The Dove Fund$1,00010%
Special Olympics Inc$1,00010%
Open Door Ministry Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($325k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Makulinski Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLucas County Pit Crew: $32,100 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetLeague of Michigan Bicyclists Inc: $21,325 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPerrysburg Schools Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSierra Club: $14,136 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Gwinnett Cooperative Inc: $12,955 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $12,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetToledo Repertoire Company: $10,600 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSaline Area Social Service Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenpeace Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRails to Trails Conservancy: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Toledo: $3,985 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBrighter Christmas Fund Inc: $3,510 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNorth Greenville Crisis Ministry I: $3,251 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc: $2,717 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Toledo Museum of Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Amplify Inc: $1,929 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPublic Broadcasting Service: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,312 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVagabond School of the Drama Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Warehouse Theatre: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dove Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Ministry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Toledo Community Foundation IncOH23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Dana Charitable Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · Premier Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Makulinski Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Makulinski Family Foundation

How much does Makulinski Family Foundation give?
Makulinski Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $74,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Makulinski Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), Human Services (13%), International (12%).
Who are Makulinski Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lucas County Pit Crew ($32k), League of Michigan Bicyclists Inc ($21k), Toledo Helps Ukraine ($15k).
Does Makulinski Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Makulinski Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Makulinski Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, The O-I Charities Foundation, Dana Charitable Foundation.
Where is Makulinski Family Foundation based?
Makulinski Family Foundation is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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